I like working at coffee shops, restaurants, and bars.  I meet interesting people.  I enjoy the varied atmospheres.  I find out what people are listening to, what they are wearing, and I overhear and participate in the most interesting conversations (as well as inane ones).  I find that getting out of the house and into […]

I can’t travel back in time, but I can travel back to places I’ve come from. It’s not that the places have changed, or even the people.  I have. I still look in the mirror and see the same hypnotic eyes, and I still have the same gorgeous hair, although there is far more salt […]

People sure say a lot of things. We’ve all got something to say, whether it’s through music or words or food or needlepoint or rampant gesticulation (the poor man’s interpretive dance). I am always sniffing for the formulas, and I’ve finally caught the scent: Just do you. I spend a good amount of time watching […]

I subscribe to the philosophy of living true to one’s passions. Do things we love to do. Create lifestyles we enjoy. Constantly enrich ourselves through art and love and knowledge. I think there’s a lot of BS hitched to the train. I much prefer the BS of modern life to some of the alternatives, but […]

Today I really don’t want to write. But it’s that time again, and deadlines have no interest in how I feel. I recently read an essay (that’s what I call articles over 500 words) about exacting standards of perfection. That’s not what the article was about, but it was one of the points in it, […]

Everybody has a voice, some people have just refined theirs to a sharp point. Doctors, politicians, mommies, rock stars, construction workers, authors, friends, that kid at the bar talking about how steel I-beams don’t melt from burning jet fuel. Voices. Those with the loudest voices tend to become the most defined, even when they’re well-defined […]